What does it mean that an issue is conceptual in nature?

被引：16
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作者：
Maraun, MD [1 ]
Peters, J [1 ]
机构：
[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Psychol, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
来源：
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT | 2005年 / 85卷 / 02期
基金：
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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D O I：
10.1207/s15327752jpa8502_04
中图分类号：
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号：
040203 ;
摘要：
McGrath (2005/this issue) argues that "the conceptual complexity [italics added] of the constructs psychologists choose to measure and the scales they use to measure them has played an important role in the failure to develop more accurate measurement systems" (p. 112). Although we agree with this, we argue, in this commentary, that McGrath has misdiagnosed the source of these difficulties and that this misdiagnosis originates with an unresolved articulation of the nature of a conceptual issue and of the relationship between conceptual and empirical issues in science.
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